Literary Criticism - Page 5

Henry David Thoreau: A Very Short Introduction

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile f...

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The Quotable Thoreau

Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 20...

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A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell

A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life ‘A clever, offbeat...

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Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945

A new biography of Lawrence Durrell by the world's foremost expert, covering his time in London, Par...

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Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyp...

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Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka - and his readers An Economist Best Book of 2...

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The Writer's Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowne...

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Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics

Acoy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife—such are the possible i...

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Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts

An absorbing history of Europe’s nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the...

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Mark Twain

Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity sp...

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Horace: Poet on a Volcano

A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man...

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Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

An alternative biography of Shakespeare seen through the lens of queer Elizabethan England. From...

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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbur...

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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century—an ingeniously plott...

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On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern G...

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